Evaluation of a Whole Setting Approach (WSA) to food in Care Homes
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Evaluation of the Food for Life Better Care Whole Setting Approach (WSA) to food in care homes
IRAS ID
243545
Contact name
Mat Jones
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of the West of England
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
N/A, N/A
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 1 days
Research summary
The Soil Association’s Food for Life has received a £1.25 million grant from the Big Lottery Fund to develop and evaluate the Food for Life Better Care (FFL BC) programme. One of the key programme processes is to work with older people and key stakeholders to design together an approach to food that improves nutrition, well-being and reduces loneliness in care homes. Such an approach to food is known as a Whole Settings Approach (WSA). A Whole Settings Approach (WSA) to food means using food to improve care right across a care setting to include various aspects of food growing, eating and cooking as well as connecting people and the wider community.
We intend to evaluate the benefits of the WSA to food in care homes with the aim of showing and presenting strong and clear accounts of the processes, learning, impact and potential impact of this approach in care home settings for residents, residents’ relatives, staff and volunteers. We will be carrying out this evaluation in two care homes - one in England and the other in Scotland.
The results of our evaluation will show how a WSA may improve the experiences of older people residing in care homes – potentially boosting an interest in food, increasing appetite, supporting mobility and enhancing overall nutritional intake of older people.
REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
18/IEC08/0018
Date of REC Opinion
12 Jun 2018
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion